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SWAZILAND: Help Sex Workers - Senator By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE - It is one of the world's oldest professions, dating so far back that it is even mentioned in the Bible. But in the deeply cultural and religious country of Swaziland, Senator Thuli Msane stirred a hornet's nest when she publicly challenged a new strict bill opposing prostitution. MORE >>
RIGHTS-UGANDA: Baganda Fight for Their Heritage By Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi KAMPALA - Specioza Nakabugo (63) sits on a mat under a mango tree on a well-mowed grass patch, her expression a blend of boredom and gloom. MORE >>
MIDEAST: Egypt Makes Cultural Clout Count By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani CAIRO - Egypt has long been recognised as the cultural trendsetter of the Arabic- speaking world. Despite recent challenges to this role with the advent of satellite television, experts say that contemporary Arab culture remains largely defined by Egyptian literature, music, film and television. MORE >>
UGANDA: Rebuilding Home and Hearth By Joshua Kyalimpa PALEMY, Uganda - Dusk gathers in the thickets of Palemy village, in the Gulu district of northern Uganda. Men, women, and children follow foot paths through the dark to the residence of Mzee Otto Yuvani. MORE >>
Q&A: Africans Won’t Just Be on Receiving End of Arts and Culture Christi van der Westhuizen interviews MIKE VAN GRAAN, playwright and activist CAPE TOWN - Global initiatives have in recent years stressed the contribution that arts and culture can make to development. This has led African and European artists, bureaucrats and policy makers to increasingly confront the unequal relations in North-South cultural and artistic exchanges. MORE >>
Q&A : The Desire To Be An Outsider Moses Magadza interviews MEMORY CHIRERE about the legacy of writer Dambudzo Marechera WINDHOEK - "The old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh... And the same thing is happening to my generation." - Dambudzo Marechera, House of Hunger MORE >>
MEDIA: South-South Radio from Caracas to Africa By Mildred Pineda CARACAS - Poverty, attacks on human rights and corporate fraud will be among the main news coverage focuses of a new regional public radio network, Radio del Sur, which will link stations from South America and Africa. MORE >>
MUSIC: Afro-Brazilians Priced Out of Back2Black Concert By Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO - On stage, singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil highlighted Brazil's "genetic and cultural" connection to "Mother Africa," to applause from a predominantly light-skinned audience at a concert that black people generally could not afford - symbolic of the country's "veiled racism" at an international festival organised to combat it. MORE >>
MOROCCO: The Berber Dance Is Over By Daan Bauwens RABAT - The satellite receiver has speeded up the process of wiping out the cultural heritage of Morocco's Berbers. Old traditions are now dying out under the influence of television imams. MORE >>
RIGHTS: Outspoken Activists Defend Africa's Sexual Diversity By Christi van der Westhuizen COPENHAGEN - The second World Outgames, held in the Danish capital, offered up a veritable smorgasbord of sport, politics and arts while celebrating sexual and gender diversity. But it also reminded participants that bigotry against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, sometimes culminating in violence, remains a scourge across the world. MORE >>
RIGHTS-SOUTH AFRICA: When the Goal Is Peace By Davison Makanga CAPE TOWN - Delivering his first state of the nation address in June 2009, South Africa's President Jacob Zuma described sport as 'a unifying force' that people must use to live together. MORE >>
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